Beauty products from yesteryear

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For a bit of nostalgia! I’ll kick things off..

• Hard Candy makeup and nail polish. I had a quad of eyeshadows in purples and golds, thought it was the shit!
• hair mascaras. Wtf were they about. Made your hair look like a gunky stringy mess
• body shop dewberry body spray, which was the thing at our school, along with
• wearing boy’s Lynx deodorant (I still recall which boys I fancied wore Tempest!)
• heather shimmer lipstick, obviously
• Rouge Noir nail polish, which everyone thought was the shit cos of Pulp Fiction, but it turned out to not even be the one that Uma Thurman wore)

Hit me with your memories!

Spectacular nail varnish. I had just about every colour bought with my pocket money

I still use Heather Shimmer lipstick when I'm going for a heavy eye make up look, to balance it a bit. It still tastes of toffee.

I loved Dewberry and White Musk. I got really excited recently when I found a white musk soap bar in tk Maxx that smells just like the Body Shop one, I bought it immediately.

There used to be this hippy shop called Rowfers that sold neon make up, I think it was called Spectacular? They also did gorgeous nail varnishes, my favourite was a deep red with red glitter in it, when you put it on it looked really classy (to a 16 year old anyway)

www.thebodyshop.in/blue-corn-3in1-deep-cleansing-scrub-mask.html

^ they still make it

OMG misstiggi jinx!

Ahh so much nostalgia in one post.

Body shop banana hair treatment, Miners make up, cheap enough to buy with pocket money, I used Shaders & Toners rich mahogany, used to put 2 sachets on at once & leave it in for hours until my hair turned purple as well as most of the bathroom.

Tom Ford Sahara Noir is a (very expensive) dead ringer for Impulse Nirvana.
I had the Miners Pacific Prawn (what a name!) lipstick in my attempt to get flat matte pink lips like Wendy James of Transvision Vamp

My first make up was Woolworths Yvette /Evette own brand blue eyeshadow but I was the envy of all the girls in my class when my mum bought me a Mary Quant huge gift box at Christmas.
She also got me the almond smelling Vidal Sassoon shampoo.
I used to use something by Bourjois back in the 80s called Blanc de Base. I now realise it was a forerunner of a brightening primer, it was bloody marvellous.
I lived for the Avon catalogue coming- all the perfumes in random shaped bottles, and I loved the Boots bath stuff (lemon grass and blue fern I think) that I bought some ridiculously expensive old ones from eBay.

Yes to the Horse chestnut shampoo! It was heavenly! Also bath pearls, when I was little I used to get them in my stocking in a tube and I still remember how magical they were

I really wish impulse would re-release o2 and vanilla kisses, just as a limited edition (so I can stock pile)

There was also a gorgeous peach flavoured skin scrub, maybe St Ives? I loved Neutrogena too, haven’t seen that around for ages.

@Amortentia the Dior cellulite stuff was called Svelte if it's the one I'm thinking of- white bottle, pink top, texture and colour of cold tea. Vaguely smoothed your skin. The Dior Capture range had the same smell

I broke my coffee grinder trying to fashion a budget version of Japanese Washing Grains. It turns out that dried adzuki beans are at least as hard as industrial diamonds.

oh, and Almay foundation was the best- I had a full cover one called iirc Rachel (wtf?) which knocked socks off Doublewear for coverage.
I bought some Lipcote for a wedding last year, and yeah, everything within a 200 ft radius gets stuck to your lips.

Charles of the Ritz make up was great- was gutted when they stopped selling in the UK. Had a powder called Luminescence which was an early light reflecting one I suppose.

Always bought my mum Morny Sandalwood soaps at Christmas.

TheCanterburyWhales that's it exactly, I'd love to get my hands on something that smells similar to how that did.

There were a couple of bottles on eBay earlier this year- I considered buying just for the nostalgia rush but they were in Hong Kong and postage was a lot. Would love to have a snuff though. I thought I was so sophisticated at the Dior counter.
I had a Givenchy eye prism as well, get me.

L'Oréal Studio Fixing Spray. My hair was back combed then sprayed with this stuff. Liquid cement. It was like having a monument resting on my head.

Yardley had a lipstick called Strawberry Creme. It was a beautiful pinky red, the only red lipstick I ever carried off.

Leichner stage make up. A thick cream foundation in a small black tub. It covered everything and had a very strong fragrance. I think it's still available online, but I bought it in Boots.

I remember those, gorgeous. I miss the old blue Dior eye pallets, they were so glam. They new ones just aren't the same.

I hated the 80s aesthetic at the time but when I look back now It seems so glamorous, which is weird because modern hair and make up products are so much better.

Leichner stage make up

Omg, my mum had a tub of that stuff. She's olive skinned and I'm about as pasty white as you can get. I went through a period of having a major girl crushing on the actress in Dempsey & Makepiece so tried using it look like her. Let's just say it didn't work. 😂

I've got some Leichner! I bought it in a little independent chemist, purely for the smell!

Faberge Babe perfume (“you’re fabulous babe”)
Faberge Kiku perfume in a bright yellow bottle
Yardley Laughter perfume
Helena Rubinstein Courant perfume
Revlon Intimate perfume
Goya Meadowsong perfume
Goya Aqua Manda perfume with matching oatmeal soap
Boots Love makeup
Boots 17 poster paint eyeshadow
Mary Quant grape crush & ginger crush lipsticks
Streak n Tips hair colour spray
Vidal Sassoon shampoo in brown bottle
Lemon Delph cleanser and toner
Denim aftershave
(I had a Saturday job in Boots)

Oh and Miners and Outdoor Girl makeup

I guess this thread is probably the place to say that 10 0 6 is back....

https://www.beautybay.com/l/formula1006/

Limara body spray advert from the 80's

Black Cherries lipstick by Rimmel. I looked like a poorly vampire.

Oh Lemon Delph! Loved the scent of that!
Midnight perfume by Dorothy Gray
Moon Drops perfume by Revlon
Azuree by Estee Lauder
Boots 17 stick eyeshadows c1972 - think I had every colour!
Using Johnson's baby lotion as makeup remover - made me feel so grown up
Valderma facial soap - still buy a bar now just for the flash backs!
A lemon scented perfume with a silver domed lid from Boots (1973) but can't recall who made it and a Max Factor? roller ball perfume in a selection of "woody" or "grassy" scents c1975
Coty Musk oil in a little bottle
Musk or Ambergris spray perfume by Alysha Ashley (sp?) In a white metal bottle

Ah the memories! Thanks for the brilliant thread OP

You can still get Alysha Ashley! Doesn't smell as good as I remembered. Coty Wild Musk was gorgeous.
A Bourjois perfyme in a blue bottle Le soir something - I loved it.
Impulse Gypsy in a pink bottle.

This thread is so nostalgic - the power of beauty. When someone posted Avon bronzing pearls, I was whisked back to 22 on holiday in Turkey looking so beautiful but definitely like an oompa lumpa!!

You can still buy Valderma soap...